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“Resolved, That we have lost in her an accomplished scientist, a 
devoted teacher, a warm-hearted, generous friend, and 
“ Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to her 
surviving relatives to whom we extend our sincerest sympathy.” 
Dr, Britton anuounced that Mrs, Britton had prepared an obit- 
uary notice of Miss Gregory, with the aid of relatives and of Dr. 
Richards ; to be accompanied by an artotype for publication in 
the BULLETIN. 
Prof. Underwood announced that an excellent portrait of Dr. 
Gregory had been presented by friends to the Department of 
Botany at Barnard and to that at Columbia. 
Prof. Underwood also announced the recent gift by President 
Low to Columbia University of a valuable series of 50 water-color 
plates prepared by the late lamented William Hamilton Gibson, 
for illustration of his work on mushrooms. It is the intention to 
frame them and place them on the walls of the new laboratory 
where they will be prized for their unusual combination of artistic 
excellence with scientific accuracy. 
Prof. Britton made a report relative to the progress of the Bo- 
tanical Garden. A beginning is made in planting the systematic 
herbaceous garden. Eight acres are set aside for this with the 
families grouped in beds; the intention is to get as many of each 
genus together as will grow in this climate in the open. Several 
hundred species are already in place, and quitea display is already 
produced by the beds of the Ranunculaceae, Compositae, Irida- 
ceae and Cruciferae. Seeds of some 3,000 different species are 
now planted in the nurseries, including 2,240 species generously 
sent from Kew. 
The paper of the evening was by Mr. Marshall A. Howe, en- 
titled, “ A preliminary Comparison of the Hepatic Flora of Cali- 
fornia with that of Europe and of the eastern United States.” 
Mr. Howe alluded to the distribution of Cephalosia Turner, a 
rare hepatic of Europe, frequent in the coast ranges of California, 
and occurring in limited numbers in a few localities in Ireland, 
England, France and the Mediterranean region. : 
Mr. Howe presented the following table aie the com- 
parative distribution so far as yet known: 
